GRE Word List
MALADROIT
lacking adroitness : inept
The meaning of the word maladroit is lacking adroitness : inept.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
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| vertex | the top of the head |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |